Travel Blogs from Bloomington, United States

... ’s instead and planned our route for the day. We decided to leave the highway frontage road and head further south to Bloomington which is meant to be a lovely town. Yet again the sky was cloudy which made for very comfortable cycling conditions. We ...

... in the museum. Lots of other cool stuff. Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) was the 19th President of the UnitedStates; the one directly after Ulysses S. Grant. He was a lawyer (Harvard educated) man who started his legal ...

It's been a good day. Up early and Bryan took us to the Bloomington airport at 5:30 for a 6:40 flight. Delta through Detroit and then on to Philadelphia to pick up Laura. Took the opportunity in DTW to call the the shuttle company who will be taking ...

We are getting excited to start our adventure this Saturday! After months of anticipation and preparation, we are counting the days and hours until we leave (4 days, 8 hours & 20 minutes to be exact). We have both started to pack and make lists. ...

Tomorrow is a big day. I will start my Baseball Park Adventure. Plan for now is to leave Bloomington about 8:00 am, and travel the roughly 250 miles to Cincinnati tomorrow. Should be there be early afternoon (even after losing an hour), ...

I actually don't start traveling again until Mid-August, but I wanted to send you folks a note. Apparently someone hacked into my AOL email account recently and started sending messages (mainly ads it appears) to everyone of my contacts, which ...

It's Friday night, almost 9:00 o'clock and I have been packed and ready to go since Noon. Sandy, on the other hand, who absolutely detests packing came home at Noon and has been procrastinating ever since is not close to being ready to ...

For those math majors out there, below is an up to date list of our final trip statistics: Miles traveled: 35,141 Countries visited: 12 Countries skipped due to natural disasters: 1 Natural disasters within a few months of a country we are planning ...

... we’d end up driving to St.Louis a day early...luckily things worked out for us and we reached our destination of Bloomington, IL. Our motel/hotel is cute..nothing special...but just what we wanted. And we have a perfect view of our baby through the ...

... of the American Revolution and the Civil War and we visited the WW II museum. There is so much history to experience in the UnitedStates. The study of ghosts actually became a history lesson as well. It was truly a trip of a lifetime for us. Thanks to ...

I drove the six hours from Columbus to Bloomington easily...with a brief stop for gas and Sliders at White Castle just outside Indianapolis. Sandy hates them! Home and unpacked and started thinking about the entire trip. I HAVE NOW DOWNLOADED ...

I'm old and yet I'm new at this stuff, so bear with me. This is a test! Sandy, Laura and I are traveling to Israel, Jordan and Egypt in December and January. Actually, the plan is to be in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve and hopefully ...

In the dead of the night our tires found our driveway and our heads found our own pillows. Long after the sun rose, so did the four Christensons. Still full from our late night burger run we drank our breakfast, coffee for the folks, and hot cocoa for ...

Well, after a couple of frantic packing days we are almost ready to take off for the airport. I can't understand how it can be so much work to pack two back packs! I really need a beer after all this ...

We've been so busy planning that we completely forgot to send an update! During the past few weeks, we've been furiously researching our destinations and stocking up on gear. Recent purchases of note are Keen covered-toe waterproof sandals for ...

... ...I think it's the nicest pic I've taken so far on the trip. I phoned Justin as I drove closer to Bloomington, skirted around Indianapolis and got some fuel south of Martinsville. He was waiting for me at his house, which has recently had ...

Been home a couple of days, but just got the chance to sit down and finish up some lose ends with regard to my trip last week. First, I forgot to tell you about the great family who sat behind me at the Oakland A's game. They were an ...

... all of the escorts and bagpipe music they played for us. Once we made it to the college, we started our ride into Bloomington. We have never seen so much support before. There were people on the sidewalks, in the streets, all over the place. It was ...

... by non-historians as the last part of the campaign slogan, "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too," was the 10th President of the UnitedStates. I saw his gravesite in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA, earlier this year along with 5th President James Monroe ...

Well, I didn't get up early and play golf...again. Follow my logic here. Was going to get up at 6:30, hit the road by 7:00 and golf near Dallas by 10:00. By the time I got there it was going to be 90 degrees anyway, and besides I really wanted to check ...

I'm home. Helen, the Project Director from Perkins upgraded my seat to Economy Plus, which is a section of the aircraft with more leg room than the regular "coach" section. It turned out to be a huge advantage for me, as I had three seats to my ...

Friday morning I was up at the usual time and on the road by 9:00. Headed for Lancaster, PA, about a 90 minute drive looking for the gravesite of James Buchanan, my last President on this trip. Talk about tough to find. He is buried in Woodward ...

Here's a copy of my tentative itinerary. If you have additional or alternative suggestions for food, or might like to go to a game with me, let me hear from you. Most of these restaurant and food suggestons came from Man vs. Food, ...